Yuze Sui

Stanford University

450 Jane Stanford Way

Stanford, CA 94305

Biography

I am Yuze Sui, a 5th-year Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology with a Ph.D. Minor in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. My research focuses on careers, bureaucracy, computational social science, and their intersections. I investigate the emergence and diffusion of social structures, policies, and scientific ideas using advanced computational techniques.

My work has been published on prestigious peer-review outlets, including PNAS Nexus, Management and Organizational Review, and Harvard Business Review. I have presented at premier conferences across both traditional and computational social science communities, including the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2025), the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (2023–2025), the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2021), the International Conference on Computational Social Science (2024), ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (2025), and Wharton’s People and Organizations Conference (2025).

Affiliations

Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Stanford University
Ph.D. Minor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

news

Apr 02, 2025	My paper coauthored with Tianyu Du and Daniel McFarland is selected for Panel Session at 2025 American Sociological Association Conference.
Apr 01, 2025	My paper coauthored with Tianyu Du and Daniel McFarland is selected for panel presentation at 2025 Academy of Management Conference.
Mar 30, 2024	My paper coauthored with Tianyu Du and Daniel McFarland is selected for Panel Session at 2024 American Sociological Association Conference.
Sep 01, 2021	I joined Stanford Sociology Department as a Ph.D. student.
Jul 12, 2021	My paper coauthored with Xueguang Zhou is selected for Panel Session at 2021 American Political Science Association Annual Conference.

selected publications

PNAS Nexus
The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China’s food industry

Qihua Gao, Yasheng Huang, Yuze Sui, and 1 more author

PNAS nexus, 2023

Abs Bib

While it is widely accepted that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) occupies a dominant position in the Chinese political system, few studies have demonstrated CCP’s dominant position based on rigorous statistical analysis. Our paper presents the first such analysis using an innovative measure of regulatory transparency in the food industry across nearly 300 prefectures in China over 10 years. We show that actions by the CCP, while broadly scoped and not targeting the food industry, significantly improved regulatory transparency in the industry. In sharp contrast, food-industry-specific interventions by the State Council, which exercises direct regulatory supervision of the industry, had no impact on regulatory transparency. These results hold in various specifications and robustness checks. Our research contributes to research in China’s political system by empirically and explicitly demonstrating the dominating power of the CCP.
@article{gao2023pnas, title = {The {Chinese} {Communist} {Party} and regulatory transparency in {China}'s food industry}, author = {Gao, Qihua and Huang, Yasheng and Sui, Yuze and Zheng, Yanchong}, journal = {PNAS nexus}, volume = {2}, number = {3}, pages = {pgad028}, year = {2023}, publisher = {The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, }